Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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by such intrepid andpersevering importunity as even sovereignty may hereafterjudge it not wise to withstand. There will be a Runnymede inAmerica. * A population of two and a half million colonistswere in action, moving steadily forward, marching togethertoward an end which Providence had marked out for them. Plans for a Congress were well under way. Delegates werebeing selected and instructed, and the talk of Independence,Union and force was universal. The calm Washington said inthe Virginia Convention, I will raise one thousand men, subsistthem and equip them at my own expense, and march myself attheir head for the relief of Boston. f At ten oclock, Sept.5, 1774, delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia did not elect)met at Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia, and began the Sessions of * Holemes Life of Stiles. The time of the writing was July i, 1774.f August, 1774, Works John Ada7?is, ii., 360. Lynch of South Carolina said toJohn Adams this was the most eloquent speech that ever was made.
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89 90 POLITICAL HISTORY OF the First Continental Congress.* They came well instructedand full of the work in hand, literally forced together by acommon grievance. The spectacle was one calculated to im-press any beholder. Differing in religion, commercial interests,in everything dependent on climate and labor, in usages andmanners, and swayed by prejudices, even quarreling aboutboundaries, the colonies found themselves in one representativebody, and the exponent of a power that was to be felt throughoutthe civilized world.f CONGRESS AND UNION— To petition for redress, torestore harmony between Great Britain and America. On thisbasis the Congress started, with Peyton Randolph as president. Each colony should have one vote; this after animated de-bate. The Congress sat with closed doors. Word came thatGage was firing on Boston. This nerved the members. Gallo-ways Tory plan for governing the colonies as dependencies ofGreat Britain was rejected, and the vote showed that the Whigshad co

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